Maria Schneider (actress)

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Maria Schneider at the Créteil Films de Femmes Festival in Paris (2001)

Maria Schneider (born March 27, 1952 in Paris as Marie Christine Gélin; † February 3, 2011 there ) was a French actress .

Life

Maria Schneider was the daughter of of Romania dating French model and bookseller Marie Christine Schneider and film actor Daniel Gélin , she was brought up to 15 years alone by her mother. Schneider then moved to Paris and had her first appearances in theater and film in 1969.

She became world famous through the film The Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci , in which she played the lead role alongside Marlon Brando and was only 19 years old when it was set. The very revealing role then became more of a problem for her future acting career, as she was initially offered almost only similar roles. According to an admission by the director in 2016, he coerced Schneider into the much-discussed rape scene with Brando. Schneider had stated in 2007 that she “felt raped” in this scene. When asked if there was any real sex while filming, Schneider said, "No, definitely not." She received $ 2,500 for her role, a fraction of the salary from Marlon Brando, who received $ 250,000 plus a 10 percent profit share .

The sudden fame and its consequences (scandals were blamed on her, and it was also doubted that Gélin was her father) was difficult for her to cope with. Most of all, she valued her role in the film Profession: Reporter (1975), in which she accompanies the reporter portrayed by Jack Nicholson on his final journey to his death.

In 1976 she left the filming of Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900 and dropped out of the project entirely. She had to seek psychiatric treatment because of alcohol and drug problems. In 1989 she returned to film work.

Maria Schneider died at the age of 58 from complications from cancer. Schneider was cremated in the Père Lachaise crematorium and her ashes were distributed on the Atlantic coast at the foot of the Virgins Rock ( Rocher de la Vierge ) in Biarritz .

Filmography (selection)

Award

literature

In 2019 Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" will be published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade , Elsa Martinelli , Ottavia Piccolo , Marie-France Pisier , Edith Scob , Maria Schneide, Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak . [1]

Web links

Commons : Maria Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Actress Maria Schneider is dead  - news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Maria Schneider 1952-2011" , Der Standard , February 3, 2011
  2. ↑ a b "She just didn't know anything about the butter" at Spiegel Online, accessed on December 7, 2016
  3. ↑ Controversial sex scene: "The last tango in Paris": abuse in front of the camera . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
  4. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-469646/I-felt-raped-Brando.html
  5. ↑ "My career would have been less intense without this film, which has been pushed through the media and shaped its time so much," Schneider told the daily Le Parisien 2004. Quoted in: "Actress Maria Schneider is dead" , Basler Zeitung , 3. February 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gélin, Marie Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2011
Place of death Paris